Chapter VII: Intention, Sincerity and Truth
people will appear after you who will eat various delicious dishes, ride on different good conveyances, marry beautiful women, put on valuable dreses. Their bellies will not be satisfied* with little of food and will not be satisfied even with sufficient food. They will spend their energies in earning and they will worship deites other than God and they will follow their low desires. By Muhammad, son of Abdullah, if your successors or those who will run after them will meet them, they shall not salute them, nor treat them in their illness, nor attend their funeral prayer, nor honour their elders. He who does the above will help the destruction of Islam.
The Prophet said : Leave the world to the worldly addicted man. He who takes from the world in excess of what is necessary for him, takes the path of destruction without his knowledge.
The Prophet said: The son of Adam says : My wealth, my wealth.
What connection have you got with your wealth? You have destroyed what you have eaten. You have rendered old what you have put on. What you have given in charity has gone and became permanent. One day a man said to the Prophet : O Prophet of God, I don't love wealth. What is its reason? He said Have you got any wealth. He said : O Prophet of God, I have got.
The Prophet said: Send your wealth in advance, as the heart of a believer keeps attached with his wealth. If he leaves that wealth in this world, his mind will wish to remain with it in this world.
The Prophet said : The son of Adam has got three kinds of friends-(l) one kind of friend remain with him till his death, (2)
another kind of friend go with him upto his grave, (3) and the third kind of friend remain with him up to the Resurrection Day.
The friend which remains with him up to his death is his wealth, and the friend who goes with him upto his grave is his relatives and the friend which will remain with him upto the resurrection day is his good works. The disciples of Jesus Chirst asked him :
What is the matter that you can walk upon water? He asked :
What value do «you attach to gold and silver? They said : To us they are most valuable? He said : To me gold and silver are the same as earth.
Hazrat Salman Faresi wrote to Hazrat Abu Darda'a : O dear brother, don't accumulate such thing from the world for which you will not be able to express gratefulness, as I have heard the prophet say : The worldly man who spends wealth in obedience
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